Tag Archives: College of Engineering

The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation in partnership with generous donors and UH partners, raised $77.6 million in fiscal year 2017 (July 1,2016–June, 30, 2017). These funds will directly impact students, faculty, research and programs on all 10 University of Hawaiʻi campuses. “This year 29,180 gifts were made to support programs people are passionate about,” said Donna Vuchinich, president and CEO, UH Foundation. “Every day we have the privilege of hearing from …

Sangwoo Shin, a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa mechanical engineering assistant professor, has won the competition to present at the prestigious Falling Walls Conference in Berlin, Germany, later this year. Shin was one of 10 participants at Hawaiʻi’s inaugural Falling Walls Lab competition, hosted by the UH Mānoa Institute for Astronomy, with his presentation, “Breaking the Walls of Water Treatment.” …

According to the World Health Organization, 1.8 billion people worldwide use a source of drinking water that is contaminated. By 2025, half the world’s population will live in water-stressed areas. A team led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Sangwoo Shin along with Orest Shardt of University of Limerick has found a promising, inexpensive way to clean water using …

The 29th Annual CTAHR/COE Student Research Symposium, held April 7–8, showcased student work in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and the College of Engineering (COE) of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Students presented papers and posters on numerous aspects of natural resource management, agriculture and horticulture, biofuels and bioengineering, consumer sciences, entomology and virology. Highlights included nutrient management in traditional loʻi …

College of Engineering Elele award Congratulations to the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Engineering for winning the 2017 Hawaii Convention Center ‘Elele Organization of the Year for generating $170M in convention business! #engineering Posted by University of Hawai‘i News on Friday, March 31, 2017 Since the Hawaiʻi Convention Center opened in 1998, the College of Engineering at the …

Research at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa could play a major role in NASA’s goal to travel to Mars in the 2030s, including what the astronauts could eat during that historic mission. A trip to Mars and back is estimated to take about two and half years, and ideally, their diet would be healthy while requiring minimal effort and …

University of Hawaiʻi Civil Engineering Professor Ian Robertson was recently named to Engineering News-Record’s list of “Top 25 Newsmakers in 2016” for his “crucial contributions to the campaign that resulted in the 2016 adoption of the world’s first standards for tsunami-resistant design.” ENR chose Professor Robertson for a number of reasons. He was a significant contributor to the American Society …